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Word: rican (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor which had proved too politically hot for Robert Hayes Gore (TIME, Jan. 22). The one-time Judge Advocate General of the Army smilingly told newshawks that he had nothing to say about his new post. But a fellow-passenger, who had also just landed a big Puerto Rican job, said plenty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Crowing Collector | 2/12/1934 | See Source »

...almost landed the job, too," crowed Mrs. Whittemore, wife of a Puerto Rican Federal Land Bank director. "Made a great play for it, and all the time I had an ace in the hole. Yeah. What I really wanted, you see, was this collectorship. It's among the three or four best collectorships there are. Pays $6,500 a year. You have a boat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Crowing Collector | 2/12/1934 | See Source »

...mansion, Acting Governor Benjamin J. Horton was lunching with Deputy NRAdministrator Boaz Walton Long. NRAdministrator Long stepped to the window, took one look at the crowd and at the tack-strewn streets, decided to postpone his inspection tour of the island. Colonel Francis Riggs, chief of the Puerto Rican police, came bumping into San Juan from Rio Piedras with 23 punctures. "This is anarchy!" he cried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: In Puerto Rico | 1/8/1934 | See Source »

...Horton stepped in with a proclamation. The price of gasoline was 25?; he reduced it to 20? ordered the leading companies-Shell, Texaco, West India (Standard of New Jersey subsidiary), Pyramid-to keep it at that price until gasoline costs could be investigated. The Commissioner of Labor, a Puerto Rican, magnanimously suggested that if the companies starved on a 20? price, the Legislature should reimburse them for their loss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: In Puerto Rico | 1/8/1934 | See Source »

...summer home, 50 mi. from San Juan, had been bombed shortly after he had left it. Next day another bomb, its fuse defective, was found in the garden of the Governor's mansion at San Juan. The Governor immediately ordered floodlights thrown around the mansion, asked Puerto Rican police to confiscate all guns and ammunitions stored at the University R. O. T. C. headquarters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Gore Bombed | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

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